Book Releases: Paranormal/Horror (January to June 2022)

It’s a new year and, since the number of book releases we know about per month is just tipping into unwieldy (June alone last year had 150 books to add to the post, not to mention the 50+ more we found later), we’ve decided to change up the way we’re doing releases posts. We started organising releases posts by genre around halfway through last year, so we’re sticking with that here. The major difference? Each genre gets its own post, which will eventually cover a period of 6 months. So, like with our various other releases posts (although those go up all at once, whereas here we’ll add each month), these are more easily edited and added to! Which means, even if we miss a book, we can better come back and add it to the post. A win for everyone!

In this post, you’ll find the collection of paranormal/horror books that we know about from January to June of 2022!

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JANUARY

🌈 The Ghost’s Host by Cathleen Collins (f/f)
🌈 Blood of the Pack by Cassie Alexander (bi mcs, f/m)
🌈 All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes (trans mc; UK, US March)
🌈 Match with the Demon by Chace Verity (m/m)
Monsterlog: First Act by B. B. Bizaio (lgbt cast; English translation)

FEBRUARY

🌈 The Visitors by Greg Howard (gay mc)
Parallel Hells by Leon Craig (lgbt stories)
Extasia by Claire Legrand (sapphic mc, sapphic characters)
🌈 Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman (trans mc, sapphic li)

The Willing by Lyn Hemphill (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Blood at Dusk by Cassie Alexander (bi mcs, f/m relationship)
Wanted by the Wolf by Ariel Marie (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Ooze by Tash McAdam (trans mc)

🌈 Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin (trans mcs)
Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, trans. by Sarah Booker (sapphic mcs)

MARCH

🌈 Dying For You by Jenny Frame (f/f relationship)
🌈 Type 1 Undead by A. H. Haga (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Bound by Aveda Vice (pan mcs, m/m/f relationship)
🌈 Blood by Midnight by Cassie Alexander (bi mcs, f/m relationship)
🌈 Throw Me a Bone by Rachel Ford (f/f relationship)

🌈 When It Rains by Mark A. Gunnells (gay mc)
🌈 The Book of Queer Saints ed. by Mae Murray (lgbt cast)
🌈 My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham (lesbian mc, bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Hell Bent by Calista Lynne (f/f relationship)
Forever, My Dear Ghost by F. S. Pinkey (Chinese Canadian gay mc, m/m relationship)

Entity by Mere Joyce (achillean mc, m/m relationship)
Cold Blood by T. Strange (m/m relationship)
🌈 The Gift of Blood by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea (lesbian mc, f/f, polyam side relationship, nb & ace side characters)
🌈 Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (f/f)
🌈 Dead Woman’s Revenge by Elle E. Ire (lesbian mc, bi li, f/f)
Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado, trans. Jamie Richards (Italian sapphic mc, Chinese sapphic li)

APRIL

🌈 A Good Year by Polis Loizou (gay mc)
Sanctuary by Andi C. Buchanan (nonbinary mc, sapphic li)
🌈 I Am the Ghost in Your House by Maria Romasco-Moore (bi mc)
🌈 Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson (gay mc) tw graphic body horror & gore, gaslighting, PTSD
🌈 Under Her Skin ed. by Lindy Ryan & Toni Miller (trans & nonbinary authors)

🌈 Ghost Trio by Phyllis Irwin & Lillian Faderman (lesbian mc)
🌈 Convulsive by Joe Koch (lgbt characters)
🌈 Cold Blood by Genevieve McCluer (f/f relationship)
Boss Witch by Ann Aguirre (bi mc, f/m relationship)
🌈 Blood Thinners by Heather Novak (f/f relationship)

🌈 The Forgotten Dead by Jordan L. Hawk (m/m relationship, trans mc)
A Shining Path by L. S. Johnson (f/f relationship)

MAY

On Stolen Land by Stephanie Rabig (f/f relationship)
Bonded by Isabeau Moon (f/f relationship)
🌈 Your Mind is a Terrible Thing by Hailey Piper (nonbinary mc)
Out of the Ashes by Jenn Burke (m/m relationship)
🌈 The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan (bi mc, f/f relationship)

Hummingbird by T. C. Parker (lesbian mcs, trans mc)
Darknesses by Lachelle Seville (f/f relationship)
🌈 Primal Animals by Julia Lynn Rubin (sapphic mc) cw blood, insects, gore, mentions of sexual assault/harassment
🌈 Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak & Roman Titov (sapphic characters)
The Sceptic by Lily Morton (m/m relationship)

Our Monsters by Jemma Topaz (sapphic mc)
The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker (f/f relationship)

JUNE

🌈 Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White (trans mc, lgbt characters)
Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan (lgbt characters)
🌈 Boys, Beasts & Men by Sam J. Miller (achillean cast)
Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 House of Slaughter, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, Werther Dell‘Edera & Chris Shehan (m/m relationship)

It Eats Us From the Inside by Antonija Mežnarić (f/f relationship)
🌈 Clementine by Tillie Walden (sapphic mc)
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen (f/f relationship)
🌈 Don’t Make Me Do Something We’ll Both Regret: Stories by Tim Jones-Yelvington (lgbt characters)
Witch 13 by Patrick R. Delaney (sapphic mc)
The Bottled Gods by M. J. Fitzmaurice (lesbian mc, trans mc)

Please note: we have removed titles by Freydís Moon after on discovering they’re a pseudonym for Taylor B. Barton/Taylor Brooke who was accused of racism, bullying, & pretending to be Latine a few years back.

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